Kyle Pott

Turning the terminal into a spell-checking genie is as simple as installing the spell package. Tech site specializing in terminal commands, A Linux Sysad Blog, introduces spell and shows how you can use it to turn the terminal into the world's fastest spell-checker. Spell has two primary uses; the first simply lists all of the misspelled words in a document. It can also be used to interactively spell-check a document (shown in the screenshot). Add spell-checking to your bag of terminal tricks that includes checking Gmail and using the terminal as a stopwatch.